James Woods

James Howard Woods is an American actor and producer. He is known primarily for playing villainous roles in film. Woods has appeared in a variety of films, including The Way We Were (1973), The Onion Field(1979), Videodrome (1983), Once Upon a Time in America (1984), Best Seller (1987), Chaplin (1992), Casino (1995), Nixon (1995), Vampires (1998), Straw Dogs (2011), and White House Down (2013).

On television, he is known for portraying the lead character in Shark (2006–08) and for playing himself on eight episodes of Family Guy, as well as on one episode of The Simpsons.